Jostein Gaarder Quotes

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

Jostein Gaarder

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• In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Interest
  • Bookstores

• Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Musicals
  • Guardian
  • Classics

• I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Character

• I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friend
  • Fire
  • Forest

• The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Love
  • Justice
  • Bible

• It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Pretty

• You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

  

  Van Morrison
  • You
  • Singer
  • Got

• There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Fortune

• I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Actor
  • Director
  • Rely

• Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Know
  • Embrace

• When I became director of CIA, it was just clear to me intuitively, without a whole lot of science behind it, that we had expanded rapidly and inefficiently. So I arbitrarily picked a number, 10 percent, and I said over the next 12 months, we are going to reduce our reliance on contractors by 10 percent.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Science
  • Percent
  • Reliance

• I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too.

  

  Zendaya
  • Heart
  • Parents
  • Player

• We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Women
  • Forever

• I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Reality
  • Landscape

• I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Think
  • Bottom
  • Drop

• You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Life
  • Time
  • You

• The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Together
  • Magic

• He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Good
  • Busy

• Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Simple
  • Focus
  • Understanding

• In futsal, you see whether a player is really talented. You notice the small details in quality, class and tactical understanding.

  

  Xavi
  • Small
  • Quality
  • Understanding

• If I tell you a story, you can choose to believe me, or you can question it.

  

  John Burnside
  • Believe
  • Question

• When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Understanding
  • Realize
  • Right Path